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Telecasts · NBA

NBA Lakers–Timberwolves

Nielsen average audience: 1,600,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2021-12-17 Friday
Networks
ESPN
Teams
Lakers · Timberwolves
1,600,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2021-12-22

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
1,600,000
… up 51% and 53% respectively from '19 (Mavericks-Sixers: 0.7, 1.14M) — followed by Lakers-Timberwolves at a 1.0 and 1.60 million. Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

NBA 2021-22 season

90th of 161 published NBA figures in the 2021-22 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 22:04 UTC

Prior-season comparable

7,010,000
Dallas Mavericks at Los Angeles Lakers
2020-12-25 · ABC · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
−77.2% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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